Tag: Daimler CV
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West Bromwich – Daimler CVG5 – FEA 156 – 156
West Bromwich (County Borough of) Transport Dept1952Daimler CVG5Metro-Cammell B38R To return to West Bromwich, near contemporaries of the GEA registered Daimler double deckers, a pair of which were posted on site a week or so ago, were a batch of single deckers. The chassis were built in 1948, but due to pressure of work at…
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Burwell and District – Daimler CV – PHP 220
Burwell and District Motor Services1952Daimler CVG6Northern Counties H33/28R Burwell and District was a small company based in the Cambridgeshire village of that name, just to the north west of Newmarket. Like many such operators, it began just after WW1 when Mr Mansfield, a cycle and motor agent in the village, bought a 20 seat Model…
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SELNEC PTE – Daimler CVG6 – TRJ 128 – 4017
SELNEC PTE1962Daimler CVG6Metro-Cammell H37/28R (Orion) During the Selnec era, quite a number of ex-Salford buses were transferred to the former Manchester Corporation Depot at Queens Road. Most of these were Leyland Atlanteans and PD2’s, which would be quite at home among the ex-Manchester Leylands based here, although I wondered what the Queens Road crews made…
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Rotherham Corporation – Daimler CVG – CET 76C – 76
Rotherham Corporation1965Daimler CVG6LXRoe H39/31F It’s an August Sunday evening in 1967 at the Chapeltown terminus of the service from Rotherham. Huddersfield had batches of almost identical vehicles but these Rotherham ones were classy – they had hopper saloon windows! I never travelled on a Rotherham example but I hope they had more comfortable seats than…
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Lancaster City Transport – Daimler CV – NTF 466 – 466
Lancaster City Transport1952Daimler CVG5Northern Counties B35F NTF 466 is a Daimler CVG5 with Northern Counties B35F body, built for Lancaster City Transport in 1952. There were three of them, but 467 and 468 were withdrawn in 1958. They had B32R bodies [with door!] when new and 466 was converted in the operator’s workshops to forward…
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Huddersfield Corporation – Daimler CVG6 – HVH 472D – 472
Huddersfield Corporation1966Daimler CVG6LX.30DDEast Lancs H41/29F This is the last Huddersfield Corporation vehicle delivered (numerically) with a front engine and is currently preserved. It was new in 1966 to the Corporation, being withdrawn in 1980, having served 6 years with the WYPTE.The photo was taken in 2005 at a local bus rally and shows the vehicle…
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Aberdeen Corporation – Daimler CV – CRG 325C – 325
Aberdeen Corporation1965Daimler CVG6Alexander H37/29R CRG 325C is a Daimler CVG6 with Alexander H66R bodywork. She entered service with Aberdeen in March 1965. This was one of only three or four Councils in Scotland still with its own Transport Department at Local Government Reorganisation in 1975 [a year later than in England] the undertaking was renamed…
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Northampton Corporation – Daimler CV – JVV 267G – 267
Northampton Corporation1968Daimler CVG6DDRoe H33/26R This former Northampton 267, JVV 267G, is seen here on a running day at Wellingborough on 22/4/17.This was the last CVG6 for the UK market, the last bus with pre-selector transmission, the last teak framed Roe body and, I believe, the last open rear platform bus delivered in the UK. Photograph…
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Leeds City Transport – Daimler CVG6 – YNW 555 – 555
Leeds City Transport1957Daimler CVG6Weymann H33/27R Photographed in April 1970 in the dignified livery of Leeds City Transport is Daimler CVG6, Weymann H33/27R, YNW 555, No. 555, one of a batch of twenty delivered in September 1957. This bus remained in service to pass to WYPTE on 1 April 1974. Photograph and Copy contributed by Roger…
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Manchester Corporation – Daimler CVG6 – NNB 222 – 4412
Manchester Corporation1953Daimler CVG6Metro Cammell H32/28R During the 1950s, Manchester Corporation mainly sourced its double deck fleet from Leyland, the shorter PD2 chassis being preferred, and from Daimler, mostly the CVG6 version, but some CVG5s were also taken. The picture, taken in June 1970 after the formation of the SELNEC PTE in November 1969, shows Daimler…